Paradise (Where is it now?)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 15:05 (5441 days ago)

About 1:30 today I put on the radio and caught the end of the News. Someone with a Middle-Eastern accent was describing a picture of the paradise to which Muslim suicide bombers think they are going when they become martyrs. He said something to the effect that "we don't know if such a place exists". I tried to locate the programme on Listen Again, to check that I'd heard right, but unfortunately it is not available. My immediate reaction was "Oh Yes We Do!" It is the pantomime season after all. -There has been some talk here in the past about near-death experiences, which are supposed by some to be a foretaste of Paradise, but I'm not clear how far the religiously inclined contributors think there is an actual Paradise to which people go in some form after death.-I'm quite certain, as much as one can be certain about anything, that Paradise exists in the same sense that Wonderland, Oz, Middle-Earth, Narnia, Looking-Glass-Land, Cloud Cuckoo Land, Brobdingnag, Lilliput, Utopia and other fictitious places of the literary imagination exist. That is they exist only as dreams and fantasies in human minds. That is they do not exist in reality.

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GPJ